An Empirical Study on Customer Churn Behaviours Prediction Using Arabic Twitter Mining Approach
With the rising growth of the telecommunication industry, the customer churn problem has grown in significance as well. One of the most critical challenges in the data and voice telecommunication service industry is retaining customers, thus reducing customer churn by increasing customer satisfactio...
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doaj-9a5b58d04f2841e294c4248950a751bc2021-07-23T13:41:32ZengMDPI AGFuture Internet1999-59032021-07-011317517510.3390/fi13070175An Empirical Study on Customer Churn Behaviours Prediction Using Arabic Twitter Mining ApproachLatifah Almuqren0Fatma S. Alrayes1Alexandra I. Cristea2Information Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11564, Saudi ArabiaInformation Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11564, Saudi ArabiaInformation Systems Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh 11564, Saudi ArabiaWith the rising growth of the telecommunication industry, the customer churn problem has grown in significance as well. One of the most critical challenges in the data and voice telecommunication service industry is retaining customers, thus reducing customer churn by increasing customer satisfaction. Telecom companies have depended on historical customer data to measure customer churn. However, historical data does not reveal current customer satisfaction or future likeliness to switch between telecom companies. The related research reveals that many studies have focused on developing churner prediction models based on historical data. These models face delay issues and lack timelines for targeting customers in real-time. In addition, these models lack the ability to tap into Arabic language social media for real-time analysis. As a result, the design of a customer churn model based on real-time analytics is needed. Therefore, this study offers a new approach to using social media mining to predict customer churn in the telecommunication field. This represents the first work using Arabic Twitter mining to predict churn in Saudi Telecom companies. The newly proposed method proved its efficiency based on various standard metrics and based on a comparison with the ground-truth actual outcomes provided by a telecom company.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-5903/13/7/175customer churncustomer satisfactionsentiment analysisdeep learning |
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An Empirical Study on Customer Churn Behaviours Prediction Using Arabic Twitter Mining Approach |
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An Empirical Study on Customer Churn Behaviours Prediction Using Arabic Twitter Mining Approach |
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empirical study on customer churn behaviours prediction using arabic twitter mining approach |
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With the rising growth of the telecommunication industry, the customer churn problem has grown in significance as well. One of the most critical challenges in the data and voice telecommunication service industry is retaining customers, thus reducing customer churn by increasing customer satisfaction. Telecom companies have depended on historical customer data to measure customer churn. However, historical data does not reveal current customer satisfaction or future likeliness to switch between telecom companies. The related research reveals that many studies have focused on developing churner prediction models based on historical data. These models face delay issues and lack timelines for targeting customers in real-time. In addition, these models lack the ability to tap into Arabic language social media for real-time analysis. As a result, the design of a customer churn model based on real-time analytics is needed. Therefore, this study offers a new approach to using social media mining to predict customer churn in the telecommunication field. This represents the first work using Arabic Twitter mining to predict churn in Saudi Telecom companies. The newly proposed method proved its efficiency based on various standard metrics and based on a comparison with the ground-truth actual outcomes provided by a telecom company. |
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customer churn customer satisfaction sentiment analysis deep learning |
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